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Grid Poet — 12 April 2026, 21:00
Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate domestic supply as calm, overcast night drives heavy net imports of 19.2 GW.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 21:00 on a calm, overcast April evening, the German grid draws 48.5 GW against only 29.3 GW of domestic generation, resulting in approximately 19.2 GW of net imports. With solar offline and onshore wind producing just 2.5 GW in near-still air, the renewable share stands at 32.1%, sustained mainly by biomass at 4.6 GW and hydro at 1.6 GW. Thermal plants carry the bulk of domestic supply: brown coal leads at 8.2 GW, followed by natural gas at 7.6 GW and hard coal at 4.1 GW. The day-ahead price of 136.7 EUR/MWh reflects the tight domestic supply-demand balance and heavy reliance on imports and marginal fossil generation.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a starless shroud the furnaces breathe deep, brown coal and gas shoulder the dark while turbines barely creep. Across the borders, borrowed current hums through silent wires—a nation's hunger fed by distant fires.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 0%
Biomass 16%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 26%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 28%
32%
Renewable share
3.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
29.3 GW
Total generation
-19.2 GW
Net import
136.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.8°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
461
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.2 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, lit from below by orange sodium lamps; natural gas 7.6 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks venting heat shimmer into the night; hard coal 4.1 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal-fired station with a single large chimney and conveyor belt structures; biomass 4.6 GW stands to the right as a cluster of mid-sized industrial boiler houses with wood-chip storage domes, warmly lit; wind onshore 2.5 GW shows as a handful of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors nearly still; wind offshore 0.7 GW appears as faint red aviation lights on the far horizon suggesting offshore masts; hydro 1.6 GW is a small dam with illuminated spillway in the far right background. No solar panels anywhere. The sky is fully overcast, completely dark—deep navy-black clouds with no stars, no moon, no twilight glow. The air is still, at 9.8°C early spring—bare-branched trees with the faintest green buds visible under artificial light. A network of high-voltage transmission pylons stretches across the middle ground, cables glinting under facility lights, symbolising the heavy import flows. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price—low-hanging cloud pressing down on the industrial glow. Early spring grass is damp and muted. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art—rich, dark colour palette of amber, charcoal, steel blue, and cream; visible thick brushwork; atmospheric chiaroscuro depth; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, exhaust stack, and pylon insulator. The scene reads as a sombre industrial nocturne, a masterwork painting of energy infrastructure under a starless spring night. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 12 April 2026, 21:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-12T21:08 UTC · Download image